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Quotes About First

Some doctors explain love at first sight as arising not from what you see but from what you smell.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
I did J.E.S.T. here when I was with the First
~ William Christie
One of the very first Indian words to enter the English language was the Hindustani slang for plunder: loot.
~ William Dalrymple
for the first time a writer grappled, for example, with the question of how to deal with a multinational whose tentacles extended well beyond
~ William Dalrymple
The first man that was slain in the world was a saint, and he for religion. And as Luther said, Cain will kill Abel unto the end of the world.
~ William Gurnall
That of Luther is most true, omnia præcepta sunt in primo tanquam capite—all the commands are wrapped up in the first. For, saith he, all sin is a contempt of God; and so we cannot break any other commands, but we break the first.
~ William Gurnall
It is a striking fact that the history of each science shows continuity back to its first use of measurement, before which it exhibits no ancestry but metaphysics.
~ William H. Cropper
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
~ William Hazlitt
At first it was a giant column that soon took the shape of a supramundane mushroom.
~ William L. Laurence
All historians agree that the gospels were written down and circulated during the first generation after the events, while the eyewitnesses were still alive. In order for the gospels to be legendary at their core, more generations would be needed between the events they record and the date of their composition.
~ William Lane Craig
Every addict is formed in the crucible of the memory of that first hit.
~ David Carr
At seasons end the Yankees retired Gehrig's No. 4, making his the first retired number in baseball.
~ David Fischer
Natalie and François met on the street. It's always a tricky thing when a man comes up to a woman. She's bound to wonder, Is that what he spends his time doing? Quite often the men are going to claim that it's the first time.
~ David Foenkinos
My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
~ David Friedman
I am the first, and I am the last [Jesus was chosen at the first, in the premortal existence, to be our Redeemer, and He will be around at the last, to be our Judge—see John 5:22]; and beside me there is no God [there are
~ David J. Ridges
God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
~ Thomas Keating
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
~ C. S. Lewis
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
God's first creature, which was light.
~ Francis Bacon
You will always take first place in God's Heart.
~ Bo Sanchez
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
~ Abraham Cowley
[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.
~ Brigham Young
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.
~ Felicia Hemans
There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
~ Thomas Aquinas